BY MADELEINE O’DEA This piece is an edited version of a workshop given by Madeleine O’Dea and hosted by NüVoices London on July 3, 2019. Special thanks to volunteers Jessie [ … ]
James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China, discusses censorship and China’s women’s movement
BY GLORIS LIU AND DAISY SINGH-GREAVES “China’s censors do not care about blocking content, they care about blocking solidarity,” James Griffiths writes in his debut book The Great Firewall of China: [ … ]
Taiwan’s lesbian sex toy and divination shop strives to help queer women accept themselves
BY WUJUN KE When Kitty Lee asked me to take off my glasses and stretch out my hands, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Kitty is the manager of Love Boat, [ … ]
Podcast: Legal advocacy against domestic violence in China
In episode 17 of the NüVoices Podcast, host Joanna Chiu sits down with Siodhbhra Parkin, the director of the new, nonprofit arm of SupChina, to discuss her work in the [ … ]
Fiction: A brother comes to visit
BY JESSIE TU My brother came to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. I’d been living with a [ … ]
Full house of 70+ welcome board member and author Karoline Kan at London wanel
BY SILVIA FROSINA A full house of 70+ attendees welcomed author and NüVoices board member Karoline Kan at the wanel (women panel) co-hosted by NüVoices and Young China Watchers London on May [ … ]
Making it personal: A life writing workshop with Madeleine O’Dea in London
Thinking about writing your life story, family history or personal essay but struggling to get started? Madeleine O’Dea, author of The Phoenix Years and a journalist with three decades of [ … ]
NüVoices DC Event: Gelato Social & Museum Hop
Come welcome the start of summer with gelato at the Hirshhorn Museum, followed by a visit to the Empresses exhibit at the Freer & Sackler Galleries. Join us and [ … ]
Five podcasts on LGBTQ+ culture in Greater China
BY ATHENA LAM The LGBTQ+ community could do with more diversity. LGBTQ+ representation in Greater China, as with the rest of the world, is often stripped down to the image [ … ]
Carving out Chinese ideals of female beauty: Visualizations by Artist Su Yang
BY SU YANG Physical beauty standards for women have evolved around the world over time, but the quest and thirst for the ideal hasn’t. Going under the knife to conform [ … ]
NüVoices London wanel ft. board member Karoline Kan, author of Under Red Skies
NüVoices and Young China Watchers (YCW) London invites you to our co-hosted wanel discussion with Karoline Kan on her latest book “Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a [ … ]
WATCH: Over 80 attend NüVoices London launch wanel “Being feminist in China: Gender issues across generations”
BY ALYSSA OURSLER It was a long-kept family secret that Lijia Zhang’s grandmother was sold to a brothel at the age of 14. Zhang—a factory-worker-turned-writer who has penned articles for The [ … ]
Podcast: Queer culture, perception, and representation within China
On the first episode of the second season of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu are joined by Alex Li, senior editor at Vice China. Alex has [ … ]
DC Event recap: Uyghur women on the ongoing human rights crisis in their homeland
BY NICOLE MORGRET The first panel event of the new Washington DC NüVoices chapter was held last week, providing the perspective of two Uyghur women on the ongoing human rights crisis in [ … ]
Podcast: All-female improv group “Beijing Broads”
In the 10th episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Anete and Silvia — members of the all-female improv group Beijing Broads! Comprising participants from [ … ]
Q&A with NüVoices board member Karoline Kan, author of Under Red Skies
In her debut book, Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a Chinese millennial, former New York Times reporter Karoline Kan offers a deeply personal and powerful portrait of China’s [ … ]
NüVoices DC Event: Life under Chinese Rule in Xinjiang
The Chinese state has forced at least 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims into “reeducation” camps since 2017, and new reports of torture, forced labor, and cultural genocide emerge [ … ]
Meet the queer women organizers of Shanghai’s LGBTQ community
BY JOHANNA M. COSTIGAN When I first met Ting Ting Liang at her bar in Shanghai, she came across as fast but attentive, caring but assertive. Walking in, she lights a [ … ]
Our top five episodes: Feminist Chinese-language podcast Loud Murmurs celebrates its anniversary on International Women’s Day
BY AFRA WANG On International Women’s Day 2018, four women came together to launch Loud Murmurs, a Chinese-language podcast on American popular culture discussing the latest movies, TV shows, documentaries, and more. [ … ]
NüVoices invites you to our London Launch Wanel “Being feminist in China: Gender issues across generations”
NüVoices invites you to our London launch wanel (women panel) on feminism in China from generational, cultural and intersectional perspectives. Years after Mao proclaimed that women “hold up half the [ … ]